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While on Miyakejima, we were introduced to a husband and wife team who own a small gift shop on the island.  They’ve endured quite a bit, including losing their home and first shop because of a volcano many years ago, only to have to leave Miyakejima after the 2000 volcano eruption for 4 1/2 years. [...]

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Trip to Miyakejima

After the exchange program, the Learning from Disaster (see earlier posting below), finished, a small group had the priviledge of visiting Miyakejima.  After an overnight boatride, we spent a day and half visiting two schools, meeting with staff and members of the House of Wind (Kaze-no-Ie), visiting Ako port and meeting with fishermen, driving up the [...]

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Sumida Ward, Tokyo

As part of Learning from Disaster: Miyakejima and New Orleans, we organized a number of meetings for the delegation from New Orleans. Over the next week or so, I will be writing about some of things we learned.
On the first day, we met with the Ward Chief for Sumida Ward and heard about [...]

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Learning from Disaster:Miyakejima and New Orleans

Betty returned from Tokyo. She told me that the symposium on April 18 had more than 200 people in the audience, who were very engaging and active in the Q & A session. She also visited Miyakejima along with ３ participants from New Orleans. We will be updating our blog with stories from [...]

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Hello April 1 – A little update

While I have been diligently twittering away, I have not been such a good blogger. From the tweet I read, I found out Acumen Fund just celebrated its 8th anniversary today! Congratulations! Jacqueline Novogratz was doing a book reading and signing at Tribeca last night. I dropped by to see how it was. There were [...]

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